Our next meeting 20-02-2025.

Organized by Barry Cumming.

Start time 6.45pm.

Barry’s theme for the meeting is spindle turning or working between centres.

Barry has all 5 lathes allocated for this meeting.

Usual raffles will also be on sale.

We look forward to seeing you all there.

Meeting 23-01-2025 organized by Nick Simpson.

Start time 6-45pm.

I was extremely disappointed to have to cancel the previous meeting on account of the weather, although the main roads were kept relatively clear the side roads were very bad, as was the car parks in the village, it was this aspect that determined whether or not the meeting could go ahead more than anything else, I felt the hall car park in particular and the short walk to the clubhouse door were dangerous and that meant we had to cancel.

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Meeting, 09-01-2025.

Start time 6.45pm.

Our next meeting is on Thursday 9th January 2025. It has been organized by myself (Alec Mutch) and the subject matter is working with Natural Edges or inclusions, that could mean a piece of faceplate work or something made between centres, as long as some of the natural elements are left on the item that’s being made will fulfil the criteria.

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Meeting 12-12-2024. Christmas Competition and grand raffle draw.

Start Time 6.45pm.

Our next meeting is the last meeting for 2024, and will be held on Thursday evening 12th December 2024. It’s our annual Competition for the MacGregor shield, a stand alone competition where everyone can enter as many pieces as they wish, the rules of the competition have already been distributed to all the members by email, here is a short version of these rules,

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Report on our latest meeting 28-11-2024. Organized by Alan Smith and Nick Simpson as a joint venture into both exhibition work and training.

Our meeting on Thursday 28th November was a joint venture by Alan Smith and Nick Simpson, Alan was in charge of the exhibition lathes, one, two and four, Nick was overseeing lathes three and five as part of the training programme.

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